Robot and Frank This is labelled as a "comedy," but there aren't a whole lot of attempts at humor. And the ending is quite a downer. Other than that, though, it's quite light and easy to follow. The characterizations are bit shallow (especially the daughter and the "bad guy," who both come off as stereotypes of young people in different ways). It was interesting and entertaining enough.

Also, they have the technology for autonomous, semi-sentient robots but haven't come up with better treatments for dementia? That's depressing.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. US version. I liked it, possibly a lot. The terrible accents confused me, but other than that, pretty solid. The worst bit was my wife giving me a commentary of how it differed from the book (but she really liked the adaptation). I have the 3 Swedish movies, still wrapped. Tempted to finally watch them, even though I've heard the US version of Tattoo is much better.

The live remote of the Rifftrax version of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", along with the off-kilter short "Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen".

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Man I really wanted to see that, but a blizzard came in and screwed the roads up too bad for me to venture out. Was it awesome?

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It turned out quite well. While a few of the jokes harkened back to the earlier treatments from MST3K and Cinematic Titanic, most were pretty new and worked good. Probably the funniest live moments were when Bill Corbett blew a couple of lines and tried to literally crawl away, only to be stopped by Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy.

The pre-show title cards (DID YOU KNOW...the song "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" was yet another attempt by Aquaman to take the Dark Knight down a peg.) and songs (especially the one about Grandma's Christmas Dinner) were funny. And the opening short ("Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen") was just...just...oh, dear.